Jagged Alliance 3 – How to Save the President

Tips for Saving the President

There is some RNG, but this generally works:

• If you have a small crew and need to reduce the enemy count, you can save scum, make some stealth kills without triggering the dialogue, then retreat. The next time you come back the remaining group will be shuffled around to new positions and you can repeat the process.
• When you start the actual fight, you want to have some visible mercs positioned around the middle of the map, drawing the Major and his guards downhill. The more they run downhill and try to engage your mercs, the safer the Prez will be when the kill order happens.
• If, I think, four turns pass, the kill order is given. You want to avoid making the final approach to the hill(within, like, 10 tiles of the ledge that starts the switchback) or it will trigger early, when the Major is still likely to be in or near his tent.
• If you have Livewire’s PDA and intel, you can do precision bombardment on the tent using grenade launchers and rockets without killing the Prez. Mortars have the downside of delayed fire and low precision but are OK for clearing out the other groups. Failing those options you can also spam smoke and tear gas into the tent to force graze damage.
• If all else fails, max level Ivan can brute force the entire fight by sneaking as close as possible, running up to the tent on turn one while stabbing or gunning everyone down with his lowest AP weapon. I believe Shadow is als